Circumcision news from aidsmap

There is a naivety among many HIV prevention researchers and
advocates about the steps needed to introduce and implement new HIV prevention
technologies such as oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), vaginal rings and vaccines, according to
speakers at the HIV Research
for ...

Cash compensation can improve the uptake of key HIV
prevention services in sub-Saharan Africa, results from two randomised studies
show. The studies were presented on Tuesday at the Eighth International AIDS
Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention ...

The growing uptake of medical male circumcision by men in
the Rakai district of Uganda is leading to a substantial reduction in HIV
incidence among men in one of the districts of the country worst affected by
HIV, Xiangrong ...

A study presented today at the 20th International AIDS
Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne found positive associations between voluntary medical
male circumcision (VMMC) and a reduced incidence of syphilis, not just in men,
but in their female partners.
Another study ...

Women in Kenya generally have
a good understanding of the partial protection against infection with HIV
provided to men by male circumcision, investigators report in PLOS ONE. Participants also perceived
circumcised men as being more hygienic and as taking ...

A mathematical model derived from current knowledge
about the efficacy of various different prevention strategies has found that,
based on these data, the risk of HIV transmission from a person living with HIV to an HIV-negative
partner in a ...

A
study from Orange Farm near Johannesburg in South Africa, the area that hosted the
first-ever randomised controlled trial of male circumcision for HIV prevention,
which concluded in 2005, has found evidence that women who are partners of
circumcised men ...

Men with penile
human papillomavirus (HPV) infection have an increased risk of acquiring HIV, investigators report in
the online edition of AIDS. This
increase in risk was irrespective of circumcision status.
“Our results
indicate that HPV infection is an important ...

Research conducted
in South Africa suggests that the roll-out of circumcision is reducing the
prevalence and incidence of HIV among men. Published in PLOS Medicine, the study also showed circumcision does not lead to
the adoption of riskier sexual ...

Text messaging did not help reduce
early resumption of sex after male circumcision (MC) in a large randomised, controlled
trial conducted at twelve sites in Nyanza province, Kenya, published in the advance
online edition of the Journal of Acquired
Immune ...

Our research found that religious and cultural beliefs compete with the messages about the purpose of circumcision. We found that this got in the way of men deciding whether or not to be circumcised medically and also affected the way they behaved afterwards.

Kenya’s medical circumcision program launched early with ambition, charting circumcisions performed for 1.3 million men by the end of 2015, leaving evaluators asking what is and what will be the impact of this HIV prevention intervention on the epidemic?

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) provides at least a 60% protective effect against HIV infection for men. While service delivery for VMMC has improved and taken to scale, uptake has plateaued. PSI Zimbabwe and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation worked with IPSOS, a market research firm, to investigate how to map and better understand the associations men and boys have with VMMC, to adapt to who now presents for information on VMMC and update their programming to fit new audiences.

Although more Ugandan men are seeking medical circumcision, the government is falling short of its 80 per cent target. According to a report by the Uganda Aids Commission, 35 per cent of adult men had undergone safe medical circumcision by the end of 2014. This has led some health experts to ask if Uganda should adopt a new strategy to encourage more men to come forward.

In the African nation of Zimbabwe where HIV infection is prevalent and where soccer is almost a religion, sports stars have successfully teamed up with a non-governmental agency to promote male circumcision among the nation's youth, researchers reported here.

China wants a bigger slice of the global health market and it has a new tactic for getting it: circumcision.The World Health Organization announced Wednesday that it has approved the quality and production of a Chinese circumcision device to aid HIV prevention.

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